Great interview at Ecolect.net with the founder of SMIT – a sustainable design startup that was started by Teresita Chochran from NYU’s ITP program. SMIT, located in Brooknam, is doing some really interesting work with solar power on homes and other sustainable energy projects. They are also featured at the MOMA design show we wrote about this weekend.

Some updates to the Lilypad which are pretty useful. Speaking from experience it’s a nice add-on. Sparkfun just got these versions of Mrs. Lily in and describe them as follows: LilyPad is now even easier to use. LilyPad main boards now ship with a right angle male connector that connectors with the LilyPad USB Link.

The last hope is a hacker convention in NYC and they just put out their call for participation. A good chunk of it seems to be about hackerspaces, so we’re going to have to show up and represent. It’s July 18th – 20th.

Do you have a lab, factory, warehouse, or other “hacker space”? Do you know there are other hackers in your area who want to build one? The Last HOPE is building the first “hackerspace village” to help bring together existing project spaces and inspire efforts to build them. Show hackers from around the world how you built your space, what you’re doing with it, or what you would do if you had one! Learn about, build, and help grow the global hackerspace movement. E-mail [email protected] with some details about your space or plans for building one! – Link

I moved all my robots into the space this previous weekend, and it took much less time than I thought. This was great because it left me with 2 more days to code and work on my robot. You see, I’ve been participating in the RepRap open source project to create a self-copying 3D printer for quite a while. I finally found enough time to fix some bugs that were preventing me from printing.

If you’re interested, read more on the RepRap Builders blog entry.

We’ve acquired a space and our core group is getting stuff set up in the space. Flickr Set Link